Game-board.



No. 648,5 6L I Patented May I, I900.

n. HASKELL. I

GAIE BOAML,

(Application filed Apr. 8, 1899.5

(No Model.)

NITED STATES PATENT Fries.

HENRY L. HASKELL, OF LUDINGTON, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO THE LUDINGTONNOVELTY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

GAME-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,561, dated May 1,1900.

Application filed April 3, 1899. Serial No. 711 ,520, (No model.)

My invention relates to game-boards of the class in which disks arepropelled acrossthe face of the board. It is an improvement upon mygame-board illustrated in Patent No.

602,179, of April 12, 1898, and design Patent No. 27,788, of October 26,1897.

The objectof the invention is to insure the retention of a disk in apocket under all circumstances.

The invention consists,essentially,of a tube, of cloth or similarmaterial, filled with a nonresilientsubstance and applied in a recess ofa corner of the board over each pocket- Figure 1 is a perspective viewof a portion of my game-board, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section throughthe corner of the board.

lindicates the face of the board; 2, the rim; 3, the pocket, in thiscase a net pocket; 4, a carom-cushion 5, the curved corner-piece; 6, atube, of cloth or similar material, filled with sand or asimilarnon-resilient substance, and 7 a wire lying in a recess andsustaining the pocket.

I have found by experiment that a disk if propelled with great forceacross my gameboard will sometimes jump out of the pocket. With the newfeature located in substantially therelation shown the fabric of thetube will first take up the force of the impact, which is thentransmitted to the sand or similar material, so that the disk loses itsimpetus and drops into the pocket. I may secure the tube in various waysand may make it of various sizes. I prefer, however, to have it conformin length with the curved corner-piece and to lie in a recess of thecorner-piece substantially in line with the carom-cushion.

I preferably secure the tube in place by means of cement,

The tube may be formed in any suitable manner-as, for example, by sewingtogether the sides of a stripand after the tube is filled the ends maybe secured in any manner, as by sewing.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I desire to secure byLetters Patent is 1. In a game-board, the combination with abase,rim andcorner-pocket of a dead or nonresilient separate cushion substantiallycovering the face of the rail at the point of impact.

2. In a game-board, the combination with a base, rim and corner-pocketof a cushion comprising a texile or similar tube filled with a granularsubstance, and lying above the point of impact.

3. In a game-board, the combination with a base, rim and corner-pocketof a tube of cloth or similar substance containing sand or similarsubstance, and lying above the pocket in the line of impact,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY L. HASKELL.

Witnesses:

GEO. N. STRAY, W. H. STRAY.

